Vending-machine



V. E. RANDALL.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5. 1919.

1,381,135, Patnted June 14,1921.

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VICTOR E. RANDALL, OF BATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO SILAS A.MILLER, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.

VENDING-MACHINE.

Application filed June 5, 1919. Serial No. 302,051.

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Vroron E. RANDALL, a

citizen of the United States, residing at 7 Battle Creek, in the countyofCalhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Vending-Machines, of which the following description andappended claims, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,form the specification. r

The present invention relates to vending machines more particularlyadapted for vending globular materials as, for instance, gum or candy.

Characteristic features of the present invention are double oppositelyrotatable vending plates, a positive and simple coin-- actuating device,an inexpensive and readily procured receptacle chamber, a removablebottom without hinges and with adequate room for an attaching padlock.Other features of novelty and objects of said invention are to providean efficient, economical and tasty appearing vending machine and will bemore fully set forth in the following specification and shown in theaccom' panying drawings, in which: Figure 1 is an elevation of themachine from the operating side.

Fig. 2' is an elevation in cross section on a line through the operatingmechanism.

Fig. 3 is a broken plan of the machine on the line a-a2 of Fig. 2,showing the coinactuatingmechanism, the oppositely-revoluble vendingplates, the guard below the plates and the exit chute from said guard.

Fig. 4 is a broken plan view of the base. Fig. 5 is a detail broken sideview of the coin-actuating mechanism.

Fig. 6 is a reverse view of the coin-actuat- Like marks of referencerefer to corresponding or equivalent parts throughout the views, inwhich A represents the base section within which a portable bottom B isfitted, the same being held therein by introducing one edge above aninturned rim 1 of said base and securing its opposite edge by means of apadlock 2 engaging a staple 3 fitted in or forming a part with said baseand extend ing through a hole in an offset edge 1 of an upturned portionof said bottom.

Fitted to or forming a part of the base in its upper portion is across-girt 5 to which the oppositely-revoluble vending plates G and arejournaled to a central bolt 6 ex tendlng through the parts, a guard ortable over which the vending plates operate, and an exit chute 8,1eadingfrom a depres sion in said plate to a pocket 9 on the exterior of thebase, and a rim 10 upon which the detachable upper section E of the baseis seated.

The upper base section Eat intervals on its lower inner edge is formedwith depending bayonet hooks 11 which when the base sections are intactextend through apertures 12 in the rim 10, and locked in the usualmanner by the turning of the one section upon the other a pin, as 13,afterward being introduced into a hole in the lower base section and tothe back of a hook for preventing the unlocking of the sections. Thesection E is indrawn at its upper end and formed with an opening intowhich the neck of a glass container F is cemented or otherwise fixed. Inthe drawings a common glass fruit jar isshown as a receptacle orcontainer.

Preferably the upper vending plate D is higher in its center and slopestoward its rim and so formed that but a single tier of balls of gum orthe like will occupy the space within the indrawn or overhanging top ofthe upper base section,- as shown. This plate has a row of open-endedcups 14 near its outer edge and they are arranged to coincide with acorresponding row .of elongated arc-shaped cups 15 formed in the lowervending plate C.

Formed on the under rim of the plate-D and the upper rim of the plate 0are cog .races 16 which intermesh with the coin-actuated vending gear 17journaled on a side stud 18 in an offset portion of the base.

The gear 17 has a rim somewhat larger than the circumference of itsteeth line and on its reverse side is formed with an outer broken rim 19and a loop-shaped brokensided coin receptacle 20, and the handoperatingmechanism 21 journaled on the stud 18 portions in theloop-shaped coin receptacle. Vhen the parts are in a normal position ora position for receiving ajcoin, as shown in the views, the sides of thecoin receptacle 20, the

ends of the flange 24 and the rib 25 are coin cident and permit of acoin being inserted in a slot, as Z, (Fig. 3), between the rim of thegear 17 and the hand-operatingmechanism. If a coin is in the pocket thusformed, by turning the crank 22 toward the right the rib 25 will presssaid coin against the opposite broken side of the coin receptacle 20 andturn the gear 17, which in turn will cause the vending plates C and D torotate in opposite directions. To yieldingly hold the plates andcooperating parts in predetermined position, a flat spring 26 fixed tothe base engages at its free end within notches in the rim of the plateC the same results would be effected, however, if a similar springengaged notches in the rim of the gear 17. By the arrangement of thecoincidentally-passing cups in the vending plates, the upper plate willdeposit a ball of gum or the like within a semi-circular pocket or cupin the lower plate, and the lower plate in turn, when such pocketcoincides with the depression formed by the upper end of the exit chute8 will permit said ball to enter the exterior cup 9 at the lower end ofsaid chuteon the exterior of the lower base sec tion A.

An object in providing double vending plates is to insure an almostinfallible fillingof the cups in the lower vending plate (as must beobvious) as, for instance, if a ball of gum or the like enters a cup ofthe upper plate it necessarilywill drop into a cup of the lowerplatewhen the cups pass fill in the next instance, and as the lower rowof cups when filled will only fill once during a revolution of theirplate, the lower cups would not take a second ball even though the cupabove was in position to deposit a ball therein when moved to so do or,

in other words, should the lower cups be filled or partially so, theoccasional jam I ming of balls over an upper cup in all prob ability.would be removed and insure the being secured tothe base casting anditsop-' posite end 28 into a small depression in said mechanism, its ob ectbeing to return the hand crank 22 to a starting position and theoperative parts so that a coin may be placed in the vending chamber ofthe machine. As.

will be obvious, if a coin is not in the coin chute .2, or a coin isinserted in its mouth when the crank has been turned toward the saidcoin into said pocket until a normal position has been restored.

From the foregoing explanation of the construction and operation of themachine, a more elaborated explanation is believed not to be necessary.

Having, therefore, set forth myinvention,

open space between the base and the upwardly-curving portion of saidbottom.

,2. In a vending machine, the combination of abase comprising an upperand a lower section, the lower section having a removable bottom andanindrawn neck rim with arc-shaped openings, the upper section havingbayonet lugs engaging through the holes in the rim of the lower section,and an inverted glass container cemented within an upper indrawn neckportion of said upper base section, substantially asset forth.

3. Ina vending machine, the combination of oppositely-revoluble vendingplates operative from a common axis, said plates having vending cupstherethro'ugh in equal spaced relation with one another, the cups of thelower plate being elongated in the direction of rotation, the cups ofthe plates being coincident intermittently and arranged topermit thecontents of cups from the upper plate'to pass into the cups of the lowerplate, and means to simultaneously actuate said plates' at. Ina vendingmachine,'the combination of oppositely-revoluble vending platesoperative from a common-axis, rlm gears 7 formed on the inner "faces ofsaid plates, a gearinterposed between the rim gears of said plateswhereby said plates will revolve in opposite directions, said plateshaving corres )ondingly-spaced cup openings formed theret rough whereby.the cups of one plate will be coincident with the 'cupsof the other atregular intervals, the cups of the lower plate being elongated in thedirection of their movement, and a stationary table forming a race-waybelow saidlo-wer plate,

a depression in said race-way, and a chute 'leading'from said race-way,substantially as set forth.

5. In a vending machine, the combination of a base having anindrawn necktop and a glass receptacle fitted therein, a vending plate rotablymounted in said base and extending beyond the neck portion of saidreceptacle, the indrawn portion of said base being spaced above saidplate sufiicient only to permit a single layer of articles to be vendedtherebetween, and the vending apertures in said plate being near theinner Wall of said neck, means to intermittently revolve said plate, atable below said apertures havmg a depression and a chute leading from10 said depresslon.

VICTOR E. RANDALL.

Witnesses:

R. A. DONOVAN, TI-IEO LEMLIsT.

